Hedgehog and Camellia

Xuanguo, an imaginary country with clearly defined class barriers, has checks and balances among the three parties of the military, chaebols, and government, and there is a turbulent undercurrent. Li Jianxu, a top-notch genius at the Gyeongju Loyalty Military Academy, is a cold-blooded boy who grew up in an orphanage. However, he received an extremely outrageous graduation assessment from Deputy Director Jang Minho: disguised as the flamboyant "Gyeongju Little Bully", he transferred to the top aristocratic academy in the imperial capital, and used the high-profile pursuit of the conglomerate heir Jin Yating as a cover to personally protect her from the revenge plot of foreign forces and explore the truth behind the entry of mercenaries. He dyed his hair blond, pretended to be a gangster, confessed to the club in public one after another, and complained madly in his heart; she watched with cold eyes and tried every step of the way, but in a hot pot restaurant, he was put on guard by his words "You smell of loneliness". On the roller coaster, he deliberately distanced himself, but in the hail of bullets, he used himself as a shield - this "pursuer" with flaws all over his body made her feel truly "seen" for the first time in the prison of power. When the gunfire on campus breaks the hypocritical calm, twenty years of family feuds and overseas infiltration conspiracies are all revealed. The boy takes off his mask and the girl sheds her disguise. They are the guardian and the protected with very different identities, and they are also the only trusted partners in the ruins of lies. When the mission ended, he erased all traces of the campus and left quietly, returning to the military academy; she continued to walk towards the chaebol throne, sealing all her heartbeats between the pages of a book. One day, the hedgehogs will no longer erect their spikes, and the camellias will be in full bloom - some encounters may only be a glimpse, but they are the most ardent mark in this cold and machinist world. Concept: The work uses "hedgehog" as a metaphor for a guardian with a spiky appearance but soft inside, and "camellia" as a metaphor for a protected person blooming alone in the cage of the powerful. It proves that the sharpest thing is never a gun, but a sharp thorn that is willing to be put away for the other party; the most precious thing is never wealth and status, but the moment of being truly "seen" in this cold world. Although some encounters are like a glimpse, they are enough to become the hottest mark in each other's lives.